Predictions for OC/FT Live Letter

[CapaxInfiniti]

Honestly? What could you possibly expect?
The game is circling the drain, but they are in no way going to say that. No one would. There's not a single company out there that would even hint that there's a problem and the playerbase is in freefall.

Hopefully they announce that the rest of Dawntrails patches are cancelled so they can release the next expansion to try to fix this disaster sooner rather than later.

[Kaurhz]

I'm not sure why anyone would trust them to make the next expansion great when they botched this one so bad.

It's like how some people keep wanting them to sundown Final Fantasy 14 in general and get started on the next Final Fantasy MMO. Like... did nobody remember how THIS one panned out? What possible faith is there to put into the next one? Hell, from the sounds of it they can't even get enough money or manpower RIGHT NOW.
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Tbh...

I feel like if this game can't even get the appropriate funding to do all the things it should be doing for a game panned to have a decade worth of planning behind it, then the possibility of actually getting a substantive new FF MMO is very very slim.

All they'll continue to do is wince out as much money from this as they possibly can, whilst routinely searching for more ways to make the entire development pipeline conform to a spreadsheet.

That being said, and to be honest the more I think about it, the more I find myself wondering whether all of this was just sheer.... 'accidental' success/